Mongolia. That one evaded me forever. Especially as it was to be my last needed zone for WAZ in addition to a "rare" DXCC counter.

I'll turn this subject on its ear, though: Which difficult one took you the least time and effort to work? For me it was Bouvet. Just a couple of calls and in the log, 2 weeks later I had my card in hand. Bingo.

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I'll turn this subject on its ear, though: Which difficult one took you the least time and effort to work? For me it was Bouvet. Just a couple of calls and in the log, 2 weeks later I had my card in hand. Bingo.

for me it was Palestine. One call and then he came back to me to get my callsign suffix correct. 20 meters SSB with 100 watts and a G5RV up 35 feet. It was late at night and I believe he had just gotten on the air. The E40VB QSL card is sitting right here on my desk framed (and is the only card I went out of my way to get via snail mail -- the other is VP8ORK -- the chasing of which gave me the DX'ing bug)

The ones I need are too numerous to mention though to figure out which would be easiest. I have 185 LoTW confirmed mixed which breaks down to 173 CW and 133 SSB

Hard to say. Do you mean easy in the distance sense? Easy in the garden variety sense???......Distance sense for me would have to be 4U1UN, but that's only because I had never heard them in all my years on the air until about 2007 or 2008....the same also applies for JX, Jan Mayan...HK0 Malpelo....and for PT0S as I missed several expeditions to there prior to this one......In the garden variety sense, I would have to say OJ0 Market Reef....at least it would appear to be garden varitety as they seem to be on the air every year in the Scandanavian Contests now.......I would have to give some garden variety loving to Antarctica too....been licensed for DXing since 1986 and never worked or even heard Antarctica on the air until 2010....then I was running into stations down there almost every other day.......wierd....

The easiest one that took me the longest? That has to be Antarctica. I searched for one for what seemed like an eternity. Then one day there I was fat, dumb and happy calling CQ on 20M SSB when KC4USA called me! How's that for easy ?73,

Probably for me it was French Guiana (FY). Don't ask me why but for whatever reason for the first few years of DX'ing I just could not work one of those guys. It wasn't until I became active again a few years ago that I was able to work one to finally finish up all of my Central/South American countries. However still looming on the list is that darn UN Station 4U1UN. I still haven't managed to work them yet and they are just across the country. But go figure, I do have Navassa

The easiest one that took me the longest? That has to be Antarctica. I searched for one for what seemed like an eternity. Then one day there I was fat, dumb and happy calling CQ on 20M SSB when KC4USA called me! How's that for easy ?73,

Don, K2DC

That would probably make a more interesting topic - rare ones that called us!

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